So I went back to the ballroom, smiling, and went straight to the stage.
I crossed the room in my wedding dress, climbed onto the small stage, and asked the singer for the microphone.
Two hundred faces turned toward me. Evan smiled, expecting a toast. Peter raised his glass halfway to his lips.
“Thank you all for being here tonight,” I said. My voice did not waver.
Then I looked directly at my brother.
“Before we cut the cake, I’d like you to listen to a voicemail message Peter recorded for me eight months ago. The night he introduced me to my future husband.”
Peter's glass slipped from his hand and shattered on the marble floor.
I pressed play. Her voice rang through the speakers, clear as a bell.
"Believe me, she's ready. Two years of suffering. She'll say yes to anyone who's kind to Sophie."
At the back of the room, a cousin laughed, then fell silent. A woman near the head table let out a gasp of astonishment.
Evan stepped forward, one hand raised.
"Honey, whatever you think you heard."
"I know about the trust fund," I said into the microphone. "I know you requested the documents three weeks ago, Peter. I know what my daughter heard on the balcony an hour ago."
"You're confused," Evan tried again.
I interrupted him with just one sentence.
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